Let me keep this short. Ok, well, short for me.
"I hope that she's selected as the vice-presidential running mate. I will speak very openly about her if she is," Trump told NBC News. "She is one of the least productive senators in the United States Senate. We call her Pocahontas for a reason."
Warren appeared alongside Clinton at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio earlier in the day, where Clinton praised her for standing up to the businessman.
"She said she's 5 percent Native American. She was unable to prove it. She used the fact that she was Native American to advance her career," Trump said, as quoted by NBC News. "Elizabeth Warren is a total fraud. I know it. Other people who work with her know it. Elizabeth Warren is a total fraud."
"She made up her heritage which I think is racist," he continued. "I think she's a racist actually, because what she did was very racist."
Yeah, but as usual — he’s dead wrong.
The
Boston Herald has been
going after Warren for identifying herself as "Native American" while she was a professor at Harvard Law School (she's currently on leave) and for listing herself in the Association of American Law Schools' annual directory as a minority professor due to her American Indian heritage. Warren and her colleagues have insisted her heritage was not an issue during her hiring, but she
seemed to hedge in her comments on Tuesday: "Not that I can recall," she said, when asked if she had mentioned her ancestry during the application process. That's different than "No."
Now the Herald has some actual substance on the candidate's claims: Warren's great-great-great grandmother on her mother's side was Cherokee, making Warren—provided the genealogist didn't miss anything—1/32 Native American if her great-great-great grandmother was full-blooded (that's unclear). Warren has said that both of her mother's parents had American Indian blood, in which case the fraction would obviously be a little bit bigger. (It's plausible that some of Warren's relatives would have masked their Cherokee heritage, given the legally prescribed second-class citizenship bestowed upon American Indians for much of the 20th century.) Per newspaper clippings released by her campaign, other members of Warren's family, including a first cousin, have embraced their Cherokee roots and are active in American Indian causes in Oklahoma, where she grew up.
Some have attempt to split hairs with an electron microscope to try and argue that Warren “lied” by claiming she was a part of the “Cherokee Nation” …
Despite a nearly three week flap over her claim of "being Native American," the progressive consumer advocate has been unable to point to evidence of Native heritage except for a unsubstantiated thirdhand report that she might be 1/32 Cherokee. Even if it could be proven, it wouldn't qualify her to be a member of a tribe: Contrary to assertions in outlets from The New York Times to Mother Jones that having 1/32 Cherokee ancestry is "sufficient for tribal citizenship," "Indian enough" for "the Cherokee Nation," and "not a deal-breaker," Warren would not be eligible to become a member of any of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes based on the evidence so far surfaced by independent genealogists about her ancestry.
Except that Warren never claimed to be “part of the Cherokee Nation” that has specific requirements.
The standards for who counts as an American Indian vary from tribe to tribe, and hinge in part on when you applied. Prior to 1963, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (that is, those who weren't forcibly relocated by the federal government in the 1830s) granted tribal membership to anyone who could prove he was 1/32 Cherokee. Per their site: "All direct lineal descendants of the ancestor listed on the 1924 Baker Roll must have been living on August 14, 1963, possess at least 1/32 degree of Eastern Cherokee blood, [and] have applied for membership prior to August 14, 1963." For those who applied after 1963, the standards went up to 1/16. Bill John Baker, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation is 1/32 Cherokee.
At 1/32 Cherokee, Warren if she applied before 1963 could be considered part of the Cherokee Nation, if she didn’t apply by then it would require 1/16 which she still might possibly qualify for depending on other members of her family. What is known and confirmed is that she is at least 1/32 as this genealogist did discover.
Chris Child, a genealogist at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society, said he began digging into Warren’s family history on Thursday, when media interest emerged.
At first, he found no link between Warren’s family and Native Americans in her native Oklahoma.
But Monday afternoon, he said, he discovered a few links. Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on her son’s 1894 application for a marriage license as a Cherokee.
Child also found that Warren’s great-grandfather, John Houston Crawford, had lived in Native American territory, but identified himself as white in a 1900 census.
Child cautioned that the search for ancestry often takes a long time and that more information could still emerge as he continues to research the issue.
Now some have claimed this marriage license doesn’t exist, or that marriage documents of that time often had no reference to race but there’s more.
A Buracker & Boraker Family History Research Newsletter published by R.C. Boraker of St. Albans, England from March 2006 asks “Is there also Cherokee blood?” Under that heading, the newsletter reads: “Eldon Boraker told his children that his mother, Ella May (Crawford) Boraker, had one eighth Indian blood in her veins. That means her great-grandmother, Sarah (Smith) CRAWFORD who married Jonathan H. Crawford, must have been a full-blooded Indian.”
The newsletter goes on to say: “The first name or names of Jonathan’s wife is a mystery. In some records it is ‘O. C. Sarah Smith’ (according to Al Donica and Donald Richardson) and in the 1960 census for Bledsoe County, Tennesee she is listed as ‘Neoma Crawford’ (but ‘Nioma’ in the index). What do the initials ‘O.C.’ stand for and where did they come from? Was Sarah also called ‘Oma’ as a shortened version of Neoma? Lynda Smith uses the combined name ‘Neoma (Oma?) C. Sarah SMITH’ in her reports. What was Neoma’s or Sarah’s Indian name? Could it have been ‘Osee’ or ‘Osie’? Lynda Smith said, ‘When Neoma’s son William J. Crawford married his second wife Mary LONG in Oklahoma, he stated on his marriage application that his parents were Johnathan Houston Crawford and O. C. Sarah Smith and that his mother was Cherokee Indian.’ Ella May CRAWFORD lived on an Indian reservation as a child.”
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Warren never really touted this, it was just the stories her family told her, she wasn’t hired at Harvard based on this information, she didn’t check the “Native American” box on her application form, and at the most was only listed in some of their documents as a “minority” and “of Native-American” ancestry. She didn’t gain any advantages or privileges from this as she wasn’t officially part of the Cherokee nation, this is just how she learned of her ancestry from her own family.
If that’s what her family told her, that’s what they told her.
It’s actually not an issue of any substance. It’s doesn’t really matter in any substantive way. If what they told her was wrong, fine, whatever.
Except that yet again it shows that Donald Trump — who isn’t really Swedish as he claims but is actually German — so easily uses disgusting race-baiting to advance his agenda to “Make America Hate Again.”
One demonstrable lie Donald Trump tells in The Art of the Deal is that his immigrant grandfather “came here from Sweden as a child.”
In truth, Frederich Trump arrived at Ellis Island from Germany, to be precise the small town of Kallstadt.
Frederich worked for a brief time as a barber in New York and then headed to Canada for the Klondike Gold Rush. There he ran what has been variously described as a restaurant and a whorehouse. He then returned with his fortune to Kallstadt, where he married a young woman named Elizabeth Christ who grew up across the street.
The bride in particular had no desire to leave their hometown. They might well have stayed there had German authorities not observed that Fredrick had departed the fatherland just before he was to have begun compulsory military service and returned just after he aged out.
Frederich became that very rare person who is deported from his own country. Elizabeth came along and is said to have been the most unhappy of immigrants as they arrived in New York, he for the second time.
Frederich died at the age of 49 in the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Elizabeth put what was left of his fortune toward founding a real estate firm, E. Trump & Sons. Her son, also Fred, married a young woman named Mary Anne MacLeod, whose first language had been Scots Gaelic while growing up in the town of Stornoway on the island of Lewis in Scotland. A ship carrying home the town’s young men who had survived World War I had gone up on the rocks on New Year’s Eve, 1919. A young woman who wished to marry was almost forced to emigrate and Mary Anne had followed an older sister to New York.
Fred joined his manifestly and proudly Germanic mother in the real estate business, constructing homes and apartment buildings. Many of the customers were Jewish and he began telling folks that he was Swedish. He became a big-time backer of Israel bonds.
So the fact is that while Trump is dragging on Warren for “lying about her heritage” Trump himself has been lying about his heritage claiming that his Grandfather and his whole family is Swedish when they in fact they had hid their German heritage so they have an easier time doing business with Jews. That’s on top of he history of Trump's real estate company when run by his father Fred discriminating against their black tenents in favor of Jews while Donald was President of the company.
NEW YORK — When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments.
The two would-be renters on that July 1972 day were actually undercover “testers” for a government-sanctioned investigation to determine whether Trump Management Inc. discriminated against minorities seeking housing at properties across Brooklyn and Queens.
Federal investigators also gathered evidence. Trump employees had secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as “No. 9” and “C” for “colored,” according to government interview accounts filed in federal court. The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants, and steered them toward properties that had many minorities, the government filings alleged.
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Two former Trump employees, a husband and wife who rented properties, were quoted in court documents as saying they were told that the company wanted to rent only to “Jews and Executives” and “discouraged rental to blacks.” The couple told the government’s lawyers that they were advised that “a racial code was in effect, blacks being referred to as ‘No. 9.’ ”
Trump lost that lawsuit so he looks pretty ridiculous to be calling Warren “Racist” when he and his family have been lying about their true Heritage including the fact that their original family name was the germanic “Drumpf”, for well over half a century.
Warren didn’t gain or even attempt to gain anything with the claim of being a fairly minor portion Native-American that she couldn’t clearly have gained other-wise, but the same isn’t true of Frederick and Fred Drumpf who had a clear business interest in hiding their German heritage for profit while illegally discriminating against black people renting their properties.
Whose the “Racist” now, Mr Drumpf?